Matthew Nardi
Internal Medicine · Houston, TXNPI 1295296044
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $6,088 of the $8,848 with a category attached, or 68.8%. 26 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 37.4% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $6,277, 9.2 times the $681 reported in 2023. Among internal medicine clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 133 payments — averaging $66.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$3K
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Abiomed$979
- Philips North America LLC$578
- Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$306
- Cardiva Medical, Inc.$253
- plus $2K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$2002%
- Travel & lodging$2,38427%
- Food & beverage$6,08869%
- Education$1762%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 32 | $3,313 |
| Boston Scientific | 18 | $1,258 |
| Abiomed | 14 | $979 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $578 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 9 | $306 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 7 | $253 |
| Bridgebio Pharma, Inc. | 4 | $248 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $243 |
| Amgen | 6 | $216 |
| Cook Incorporated | 1 | $200 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 1 | $176 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $168 |
| Novartis | 6 | $144 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 5 | $143 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 2 | $113 |
| AstraZeneca | 4 | $91 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $89 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 4 | $86 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 2 | $57 |
| Cordis US CORP. | 2 | $45 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 1 | $33 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $28 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $27 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $19 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- PROSTAR$1,494
- (5028) IGT Devices Systems Undivided$578
- Impella$450
- Perclose ProStyle$363
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$321
- SUPERA$254
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$176
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$176
- ENSITE$176
- TURNPIKE$168
- GENERAL ANGIOGRAPHY$154
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$149
- Attruby$143
- Emerge Push$137
- General - Balloon Catheters$132
- Ranger$127
- SavvyWire$124
- PERCLOSE PROGLIDE$118
- JETI$103
How this compares
$8,848 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.
Other internal medicine in Houston
- Hussein TawbiHouston$365K
- Hans LeeHouston$327K
- Tapan KadiaHouston$311K
- Nitin JainHouston$281K
- Krina PatelHouston$255K
- Nicholas ShortHouston$247K
- Naveen PemmarajuHouston$230K
- Mariana Chavez MacgregorHouston$188K
- Shumei KatoHouston$180K
- Sukhdeep BasraHouston$168K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.